June 20, 2025
Gardens Grow; So Should Businesses
One key factor to increasing a business’ value is growth. Show you can grow and keep growing. Don’t coast, because you can only coast downhill.…
June 16, 2025
Learn From Mistakes (Preferably Others’ Mistakes)
What Do These Have in Common? Business publications like The Wall Street Journalor your local Business Journal Trade magazines and industry journals Podcasts focused on business or…
May 23, 2025
Does Anybody Know What’s Happening?
In the April 14, 2024 WSJ Andy Kessler writes one of the best columns I’ve seen on why what’s coming out of D.C. is dangerous…
May 9, 2025
Know What Drives Your Growth
There was a WSJ headline recently about how P&G has surpassed Unilever, and it stated they did it by building on their strengths, i.e. their…
May 2, 2025
Win-Lose or Win-Win
I got a newsletter with the title, “Win-Lose Thinking Is for Losers.” It states the real game isn’t you vs. them but you vs. who…
April 18, 2025
Plan for Your Buyer Not Yourself
A business owner wrote me about pages 84-85 in our new book, Exit With Style, Grace, and More Money, saying he loved the message about…
April 14, 2025
Where There’s Uncertainty There’s Opportunity
It’s spring 2025 and does anybody really know what’s going on? Consider the following business turmoil’s if you will: Tariffs – threats, on, off, on,…
April 11, 2025
The Need for Adult Supervision Never Ends
Preface – while in Antigua on our service project a local Rotarian recommended some restaurants to us (her firm grows hydroponic greens, so she knows…
April 4, 2025
There are Lessons Everywhere
One can always learn from experiences and our annual trip to work in the schools in Antigua is a great example. Here are three things…
March 29, 2025
Make the World a Better Place
As you get this memo I (John) am in Antigua for our annual Rotary service project working in the schools. We shipped 1,500 laptops computers…